"I'm dropping my ultimate right the hell now!"
Bang!
Inside a medical ward in the Village Hidden in the Leaves in the Land of Fire, a sudden explosion rang out as a wall of the room was violently blasted open, startling the villagers bustling through the streets outside.
At that moment, inside Room 404 on the fourth floor of the Leaf Hospital.
A blond, spiky-haired boy wrapped entirely in bandages looked down at his palms in blank bewilderment, then turned to stare at the gaping hole blown through the adjacent wall with a thoroughly baffled expression.
Soon, several medical staff in white coats pushed open the ward doors and hurried inside.
"Naruto, what on earth are you up to?" The lead medical ninja was quite young, but her figure was already rather plump. She glared at the spiky-haired boy sitting on the hospital bed, then shifted her gaze to the drafty, shattered wall, the corners of her mouth twitching visibly.
The middle-aged medical ninja must have had a fiery temper; seeing a perfectly good ward reduced to this state was simply beyond her endurance. But just as she was about to explode with anger, a silver-haired man wearing a mask that covered one eye and sporting a rather flashy look stepped up beside her. In a somewhat lazy tone, he said, "Ah, my apologies. Naruto just came through a grueling battle and his nerves are still on edge. He might act a bit unusual from time to time, so I hope you can bear with him."
"Kakashi, as Naruto's mentor, you really need to keep a closer eye on him during this time." The middle-aged medical ninja glanced at the silver-haired man beside her, her initial fury dissipating somewhat at the interruption. Ultimately, she let out a helpless sigh and turned to leave.
Before long, only the blond spiky-hair and the silver-haired man remained in the room.
Seeing Naruto sitting blankly on the bed, frozen after blasting a hole in the wall with a Rasengan, Hatake Kakashi walked over and placed a bento box he was carrying onto the table beside the bed. Then, in a tone that grew uncharacteristically serious and gentle, Kakashi said, "Naruto, I know you gave it your all. As for Sasuke, leave him to me from now on. What you need right now is a good rest. You can't keep your mind strung so tight anymore."
With that, Kakashi quietly watched Naruto, waiting to see his reaction. After a brief silence, Naruto finally spoke, stumbling slightly over his words: "Got it... Kakashi-teacher, you go on ahead. I want to be alone for a bit."
"Mm, get some proper rest," Kakashi nodded. "The wall in this room is broken, so you can't stay here anymore. I'll have someone move you to another room shortly."
Listening to Kakashi, Naruto nodded mechanically. It wasn't until Kakashi left that the somewhat unnatural expression on Naruto's face gradually shifted into utter shock.
"Damn, you've got to be kidding me! In this lifetime, I actually get to experience what it's like to transmigrate?" Naruto muttered instinctively.
Though his bandaged body ached dully and he felt as though he were falling apart at the seams, Naruto's mind wasn't on that at all. His entire consciousness had been completely hijacked by the incredible fact that he had transmigrated.
Yes, the Naruto sitting on this hospital bed was no longer the original Naruto; he had been replaced by a promising young man from the distant Blue Star!
Ye Ming vaguely remembered that before going to sleep last night, he had been playing the arena mode of a certain mobile game, pulling off a glorious double-ultimate youth explosion in the final match that felt utterly amazing. Never in his wildest dreams had he expected to wake up as the protagonist Uzumaki Naruto, and even find himself instinctively experiencing the sensation of dropping an ultimate move in reality.
Though he couldn't quite remember how he had managed to execute that Rasengan, the gaping hole in the wall right beside him was ironclad proof.
I! Ye Ming, can not only drop ultimates in the arena, but I can also whip up a Rasengan with my bare hands! Sign up for our training academy now and get a special package where ninjutsu summoning is guaranteed to be taught and mastered! Limited-time seventy-five percent discount on tuition—forget 399, it's only 298! Step right up and don't miss out!... Cough, cough, getting a bit off track there, I'll stop.
Lest I forget to mention, before his transmigration, Ye Ming used to work a part-time gig handing out flyers for training academies...
Returning to the matter at hand, the Naruto who had been replaced by the transmigrated Ye Ming was currently feeling a mix of excitement and trepidation. The excitement needs no explanation; as for the trepidation—transmigrating into a world where ninjas roam like stray dogs and Otsutsuki Clan members are as common as flies in the later stages meant that one wrong move would cost him his precious life!
Even with all the cheats Naruto possessed, this ninja world was still utterly perilous, wasn't it?
Suffice it to say, Naruto's mind was currently flooded with potential future crises. As for Sasuke? Sorry, that was the obsession of the original Naruto; what the hell did it have to do with an outsider like him?
Fortunately, Naruto wasn't fighting alone—his system golden finger was about to arrive!
"Congratulations, Host, you have successfully bound to the Supreme Title System! By unlocking various titles, you can gain all kinds of stat boosts and bonuses!"
"Detected that the Host just used a Rasengan, successfully unlocking the 'Ultimate Rookie' title!"
"Transmigration plus a system golden finger? Awesome, this run is secure." The moment the system's voice echoed in his head, the trace of trepidation on Naruto's face was instantly swept away, replaced by boundless anticipation for this system called the "Supreme Title System"!
After all, any system with a name like that had to be incredibly powerful. How could any run-of-the-mill system ever be worthy of the word "Supreme"?
Moreover, Naruto was extremely interested in the golden-finger mechanic of growing stronger simply by unlocking titles. To be fair, in the mobile game he played before transmigrating, there were plenty of categorized titles, but most of them in the game were just used for increasing combat power—though they looked flashy, they weren't actually anything special.
Now, just how big of a surprise could this Supreme Title System bring him? Naruto couldn't wait to find out.
Just then, as Naruto wanted to check the title through the system, a golden light panel visible only to him immediately hovered before his eyes, displaying the following:
Title: Ultimate Rookie (Upgradeable)
Attribute: Optimizes the Host's Rasengan release method, changing it to a one-handed cast while increasing the casting speed of the Rasengan.
When using Rasengan, chakra consumption is reduced by 50%, and power is boosted by 50%.
——[If you've got an ultimate, drop it—that's my ninja way!]